Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 42
About midnight there was the sound of a great wind, and then Sun Hou said, “Be careful, the demon, Yao Ching, is coming.”
Who acts: sound, Sun · What happens: be, say, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wind | amod |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sun | flat |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 careful | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 careful | punct |
| 19 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 careful | cop |
| 20 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 demon | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 demon | det |
| 23 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 careful | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Yao | punct |
| 25 | Yao | Yao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 demon | appos |
| 26 | Ching | Ching | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Yao | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 coming | aux |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the sound of a great wind | there | midnight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sun | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | the demon obl; careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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